PCCTS Resources and "Notes for New Users" (original) (raw)

Maintained by Tom Moog, Polhode, Inc.

PCCTS is the Purdue Compiler-Compiler Tool Set

The PCCTS toolkit was written byTerence J. Parr.His current project is antlr 2- a complete redesign of pccts, written in Java, that generates Java or C++

Source Code distribution kit for PCCTS 1.33 MR33 (Maintenance Release #33)

Released on 21 April 2002.

This maintenance release contains about 300 changes to the original PCCTS 1.33 kit, including many fixes and some minor features to make life easier. Sorcerer is now distributed as part of the PCCTS kits.

A detailed description of all changes, fixes, and improvements is available in the file "CHANGES_FROM_133.txt".

This maintenance release contains fixes to (or addresses) almost all publicly known problems of PCCTS based on postings to the comp.compilers.tools.pccts newsgroup.

• Links for downloading PCCTS 1.33MR33 distribution kit
• List of bug fixes and new features since 1.33 MR13
• List of bug fixes and new features prior to 1.33 MR13
• List of known problems in 1.33MR33
• T.J. Parr's ANSI C grammar revised for PCCTS 1.33MR29 (and later)
• A C++ grammar based on T.J. Parr's work for NeXT.

Ready-To-Run

A ready-to-run version of PCCTS 1.33MR33 for Win32/NT/Win2k along with two sample DevStudio PCCTS projects (one simple, one complex).

Notes for New Users

Version 2 of Notes For New Users of PCCTSand extended examples for C++ mode users

Version 1 of Notes For New Users of PCCTSfor C mode users

The PCCTS Reference Book

The PCCTS Reference: Language Translation Using PCCTS and C++

• Written by T.J. Parr, the designer and author of PCCTS
• ISBN number: 0-9627488-5-4
• This is out of print, but is available on-line
  • PDF format
    Bookmarks added by Enzo Gomez (Laboratorio de Tecnicas Satelitales - Universidad Nacional de Tucuman - ARGENTINA).
• Source code for examples from the PCCTS language reference manual in .zip is no longer available.
• Errata

Vern Paxson's Flex with PCCTS

Download an example of flex with PCCTS in C++ mode

This example by Philip A. Wilseyis distributed as a zip file of about 4 kBytes. Revised for 1.33MR11 (and later).

Early (and ugly) notes on using flex with pccts in C mode.

These are available due to popular demand, despite my better judgement.

Additional Details

Version 2.22 of Notes for New Users of PCCTS

• Latest version is 2.22 released on 28 March 2000
• Corresponds to version 1.33MR22 of PCCTS
• PostScript format
• About 50 pages
• Table-of-Contents
• Extended examples (including make files) as plain text (not PostScript)
• HTML and PDF formats available
  Links for downloading Notes For New Users
  Send comments, suggestions, corrections to the author: t m o o g p o l h o d e c o m

Version 1 of Notes For New Users of PCCTS for C mode users

• Useful for those using PCCTS in C mode: it emphasizes C mode rather than C++ mode
• Version 1 is poorly organized
• It contains inaccuracies because of changes to PCCTS made after some items were written
• Last revised in March of 1995
  Download plain text compressed with zip (about 60 kBytes)